A Study to Check the Readiness of Final-Year Dental Students Vis-à-Vis to a Safe and an Independent Practitioner in Sultanate of Oman Amidst the Recent Pandemic by Triveni Nalawade, Sanjay Saraf, Rachappa Mallikarjuna, Belal Haj-Hamed, Siva Kumar, Nutayla Al Harthy, Mohamed Al Ismaily

“…Items in part B of the DU-PAS are scored on a three-point scale: no experience (0), mostly (1), and always (2). The maximum score for the 50 items on the DU-PAS is 100. …”
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Green gram and black gram: prospects of cultivation and breeding in Russian Federation by M. A. Vishnyakova, M. O. Burlyaeva, M. G. Samsonova

“…In our country these crops can be successfully grown on irrigation in a number of regions in the southern area of the European part and the Russian Far East, where the temperatures during their vegetation are about 28–30 °C and always above 15 °C. The purpose of this paper is to summarize the world’s experience in breeding improvement of mung bean and urd as crops with promise for cultivation in certain soil and climatic zones of the Russian Federation. …”
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The Effects of Foot Reflexology Massage on the Sleep Quality of Nurses Working in the Selected Hospitals of Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences by Mojgan Gholitabar Omrani, mohammad Reza Ghasemi, Mohammad Gholizadeh Gerdrodbari, Roghayeh Javan, Neda Mahdavifar

“… Poor sleep quality has always caused problems for nurses in providing healthcare. …”
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Using achievements of fruit crop genetics and breeding: a contribution from the Michurinsk Department of the Vavilov Society of Geneticists and Breeders by N. I. Savel’ev, N. N. Savel’eva

“…It was found that the markers C18470-25831, Mdo.chr 10.12, Co04R12 do not always show robust results for screening of young apple seedlings with columnar growth habit (Co) because they are identified as non-columnar forms. …”
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An Improved Robust Principal Component Analysis Model for Anomalies Detection of Subway Passenger Flow by Xuehui Wang, Yong Zhang, Hao Liu, Yang Wang, Lichun Wang, Baocai Yin

“…Subway is an important transportation means for residents, since it is always on schedule. However, some temporal management policies or unpredicted events may change passenger flow and then affect passengers requirement for punctuality. …”
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Assessment of Home Isolation Measures and Factors Associated with Adherence Among Patients During the Pandemic in Nepal: A CrossSectional Study by Lisasha Poudel, Bikram Adhiakri1 , Deekshya Neupane, Pranita Maharjan, Tek Bahadur, Pramita Shrestha, Rashmi Maharjan, Nishan Katuwal, Brish Bahadur Shahi, 3akhat Bhandari, Rajeev Shrestha, Biraj Man Karmacharya, Archana Shrestha

“…About 29% of respondents did not maintain a two-meter distance from their family members. About 76% always wore a mask in front of their family members and 68% never went outside the house during home isolation. …”
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Relationship between morphometric measurements and blood parameters in horses with varying adiposity levels and physiological conditions by Arash Omidi, Aria Rasooli, Saeed Nazifi, Abbas Heydari, Mohammad Seirafinia

“…Conclusion Although insulin, glucose and cortisol concentrations have predictive capabilities based on signs and certain morphometric measurements, their correlations are not always strong. Therefore, this study challenges the notion that all overweight horses are unhealthy, as overweight horses can still have good metabolic health. …”
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An EFQM-Fuzzy Network Data Envelopment Analysis Model for Efficiency Assessment in Organizations by Alireza Khosravi, Mohammad Fallah, Seyyed Esmaeil Najafi

“…Given that the inputs and outputs of a real system are not always definite and accurate and that some data can only be expressed in vague verbal and subjective terms, the use of fuzzy sets in modeling is inevitable (Ali et al., 2019). …”
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Bilateral Symptomatic Mucoid Degeneration of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament with Anterior Knee Pain but No Limited Knee Flexion by Koshiro Shimasaki, Tomokazu Yoshioka, Akihiro Kanamori, Masashi Yamazaki

“…It should, therefore, always be considered in cases of AKP alone.…”
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More of the Same? D’Holbach and the Temptation of Self-Quotation by Ruggero Sciuto

“…As I shall argue in this essay, however, d’Holbach’s somewhat formulaic prose and tendency to repeat himself are counterbalanced by a parallel striving for varietas: while repeating his ideas time and again within each work and across his textual corpus, d’Holbach is careful never to self-quote verbatim and always to find a perfect balance between same and new, as it were. …”
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Association between Consumption of Fluoroquinolones and Carbapenems and Their Resistance Rates in Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Argentina by Silvia Boni, Gustavo H. Marin, Laura Campaña, Lupe Marin, Soledad Risso-Patrón, Gina Marin, Fernanda Gabriel, Alejandra Corso, Valeria Garay, Manuel Limeres

“…Great fluctuations of resistance levels were seen among regions within the country, always correlating resistance with areas in which a higher level of ATM consumption was detected. …”
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Expression of MxA in esophageal cancer cell lines can influence sensitivity to chemotherapeutic agents but this does not require apoptosis by R. M. Hayes, T. R. O'Donovan, S. L. McKenna

“…Collectively these data indicate that MxA can promote resistance to chemotherapy, but this does not always correspond with effects on apoptosis. Effects on apoptosis are cell line specific, suggesting that other co‐operating pathways determine the overall impact of MxA. …”
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Effect of Emission Penalty and Annual Interest Rate on Cogeneration of Electricity, Heat, and Hydrogen in Karachi: 3E Assessment and Sensitivity Analysis by Mehdi Jahangiri, Ali Mostafaeipour, Habib Ur Rahman Habib, Hamed Saghaei, Asad Waqar

“…Pakistan is the world’s sixth-most populous country with a semi-industrialized economy. It has been always an energy importer and dependent on fossil fuels. …”
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Digital measurement of ocular microtremor in Parkinson's disease: Protocol for a pilot study to assess reliability and clinical validation. by Lisa Graham, Rodrigo Vitorio, Richard Walker, Alan Godfrey, Rosie Morris, Samuel Stuart

“…Ocular microtremor (OMT) is a fixational eye movement that cannot be seen with the naked eye but is always present, even when the eye appears motionless/still. …”
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Characterization of Pathogenic Bacteria Isolated from Sudanese Banknotes and Determination of Their Resistance Profile by Noha Ahmed Abd Alfadil, Malik Suliman Mohamed, Manal M. Ali, El Amin Ibrahim El Nima

“…Banknotes are one of the most exchangeable items in communities and always subject to contamination by pathogenic bacteria and hence could serve as vehicle for transmission of infectious diseases. …”
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Ensemble of semi-supervised feature selection algorithms to reinforce heuristic function in ant colony optimization by Fereshteh Karimi, Mohammad Bagher Dowlatshahi, Amin Hashemi

“…The significance of semi-supervised learning becomes obvious when labeled instances are not always accessible; however, labeling such data may be costly or time-consuming. …”
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Sign Problem in Tensor-Network Contraction by Jielun Chen, Jiaqing Jiang, Dominik Hangleiter, Norbert Schuch

“…We conclude by investigating the computational difficulty of computing expectation values of tensor-network wave functions (projected entangled-pair states, PEPSs) and find that in this setting, the complexity of entanglement-based contraction always remains low. We explain this by providing a local transformation that maps PEPS expectation values to a positive-valued tensor network. …”
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Anti malicious KGC certificateless signature scheme based on blockchain and domestic cryptographic SM9 by Fei TANG, Ning GAN, Xianggui YANG, Jinyang WANG

“…The certificateless cryptosystem can solve the problems of certificate management and key escrow at the same time, but its security model always assumes that Type II adversary (named malicious KGC) will not launch public key replacement attacks.This security assumption has certain limitations in real-world applications.As an efficient identity-based cryptographic scheme, SM9 signature scheme adopts R-ate bilinear pairing which has good security and high computational efficiency.However, it requires KGC to generate and manage keys for users, so it has the problem of key escrow.In view of the above problems, a certificateless signature scheme against malicious KGC was constructed based on blockchain and SM9 signature algorithm.Based on the properties of decentralization and tamper-proof of blockchain, the proposed scheme used the smart contract to record part of the public key corresponding to the user’s secret value on the blockchain.Then, the verifier can revoke the smart contract to query the user’s public key during the signature verification stage.Therefore, the proposed scheme ensured the authenticity of the user’s public key.The user’s private key consisted of the partial private key generated by KGC and a secret randomly chosen by the user.The user required the partial private key generated by KGC to endorse his identity identifier when the user generates the private key for the first time.Subsequently, the private key can be independently updated by changing the secret and the corresponding partial public key.During this process, the identity remains unchanged, which provided a viable solution for key management in decentralized application scenarios.The blockchain relied on the consensus mechanism to ensure the consistency of the distributed data.Based on the traceability of the blockchain, the change log of user’s partial public key was stored in the blockchain, which can trace the source of malicious public key replacement attacks and thereby prevent malicious KGC from launching public key replacement attacks.According to the experimental simulation and security proof results, the total overhead of signature and verification of the proposed scheme is only 7.4ms.Compared with similar certificateless signature schemes, the proposed scheme can effectively resist public key replacement attacks and has higher computational efficiency.…”
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Biomedical named entity recognition using improved green anaconda-assisted Bi-GRU-based hierarchical ResNet model by Ram Chandra Bhushan, Rakesh Kumar Donthi, Yojitha Chilukuri, Ulligaddala Srinivasarao, Polisetty Swetha

“…Traditional NER methods rely on dictionaries, rules, or curated corpora, which may not always be accessible. To overcome these challenges, deep learning (DL) methods have emerged. …”
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Time Course of Muscle Damage and Inflammatory Responses to Resistance Training with Eccentric Overload in Trained Individuals by Bernardo Neme Ide, Lázaro Alessandro Soares Nunes, René Brenzikofer, Denise Vaz Macedo

“…Blood samples were collected prior to (Pre) and after two (P2), seven (P7), nine (P9), eleven (P11), and thirteen (P13) sessions, always 96 hours after last session. The reference change values (RCV) analysis was employed for comparing the responses, and the percentual differences between the serial results were calculated for each subject and compared with RCV95%. …”
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